Showing the directions ships face when landing on and taking off from docks and ship fabrication/maintenance modules would be very useful in the station design interface.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step in figuring out how to make it worse.
Only the player is free to face either direction when docking on a landing pad, or use both sides of an equipment dock/wharf/Terran dock module as entry and exit points. NPC-controlled ships always land facing "forwards", and use the designated "enter" and "exit" lanes when present.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step in figuring out how to make it worse.
I'm pretty sure that's just how the AI is programmed and has nothing to do with the Docks themselves - I have seen that the AI does only make clockwise turns regardless if it would be easier to turn counterclockwise